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title: You are surrounded by many who will demand that the bridegroom fulfi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: You are surrounded by many who will demand that the bridegroom fulfil the conditions you yourself have named, or they will accuse you of treachery, and renounce your allegiance." Who acts: bridegroom, conditions. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and T
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 81

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You are surrounded by many who will demand that the bridegroom fulfil the conditions you yourself have named, or they will accuse you of treachery, and renounce your allegiance."

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**Who acts:** bridegroom, conditions · **What happens:** surround, demand, fulfil, name, accuse, renounce · **To what, where:** You, conditions, allegiance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom, conditions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:2:81
# text = You are surrounded by many who will demand that the bridegroom fulfil the conditions you yourself have named, or they will accuse you of treachery, and renounce your allegiance."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	accuse	accuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	renounce	renounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present · passive |  | You |  |  |  | by many | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | future |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **fulfil** | infinitive | the bridegroom | the conditions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** | present · perfect · passive | the conditions *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **accuse** | future | conditions *= condition* | you |  |  |  | of treachery | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme of treachery=Attribute |
| 6 | **renounce** | infinitive |  | your allegiance |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allegiance=Source |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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